On the mountain: rescue attempt, nonsense

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Seite 120That Nazism was still pervasive in Austria had of course been established by the
election of Kurt Wald- heim to the accompaniment of an international scandal
over his Nazi past. With Waldheim still struggling to save face, the timing of
Heldenplatz was singularly if characteristically provocative. In November 1988
President Waldheim denounced the play, which had already been attacked by
politicians and the press long before anyone saw it. Bernhard died of a heart
attack a few ...

Seite 139A friend of his in Austria, Stella Musulin, an English writer who had been married
to a Turk, told me how in Vienna she had once run into Bernhard, beaming in
great good spirits, and how she had said to him bitterly: "Here I am, writing about
beautiful landscapes and nice people, feeling acutely depressed, while you have
probably been writing all the worst feelings out of your system and you're
obviously as happy as can be." When On the Mountain was published in
Salzburg so soon ...

Seite 140Reconciled in death or not, the works of Thomas Bernhard stand as vivid
testimony to the post-imperial travails of Little Austria to this day. Karl Kraus, the
author of The Last Days of Mankind, that huge untranslatable tragicomedy about
the world that gave us World War I with its sequels, an earlier Austrian "negative
poet laureate," said of his country that it was a laboratory test case for the world's
future. Bernhard's Austria is officially social-democratic, but profoundly Catholic
and ...

LibraryThing Review

Nutzerbericht - MSarki - LibraryThing

On the Mountain failed for the second time in making feel anything. The words Bernhard chose to put down on paper were at the least inaccessible to me and at best came from his unconscious where even ...Vollständige Rezension lesen

LibraryThing Review

Nutzerbericht - j_blett - LibraryThing

After reading ten of Bernhard's novels and collections of short pieces in random order, I've decided to start at the beginning and proceed chronologically. This work, more or less a prose poem, is ...Vollständige Rezension lesen

Über den Autor (1991)

Thomas Bernhard was born to Austrian parents in Holland and reared by his mother in the vicinity of Salzburg. His temperament and erratic health created difficulties for him as he grew up in a society governed by National Socialists. Bernhard found the alpine landscapes of his native Austria far more harsh than lyrical. The isolation of the characters in his novels is only slightly mitigated by friendship, generally only between men, and never by love. Yet many readers feel this lack of sentimentality gives Bernhard's work an epic power.